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Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting.

Important story from Byline Times.

Handing out contracts to those with connections rather than to experts had deadly consequences for our loved ones.

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Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel

Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 3d

Make the COVID vaccine universally available, free of charge.

Sign the petition below. ⬇️

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We Can Make an Impact.

Make COVID vaccine universally available in the UK - free of charge.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 4d

𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐌𝐏 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐁𝐄!

The Government has the power to act. It's time Covid crooks were held accountable.

Click the link below to contact your MP ⬇️

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Write to your MP to demand Michelle Mone is stripped of her peerage and OBE

Please write to your MP asking them to support our campaign to remove Michelle Mone from the House of Lords and strip her of her OBE. She should not keep honours and influence while £122 million of pu...

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 6d

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£10m luxury flat buy linked to disgraced peer's husband branded 'slap in face'

Families who lost loved ones to Covid are furious that a firm linked to Michelle Mone's husband purchased a luxury £10million pad in Florida

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 6d

It's clear that Mone believes she is unaccountable.

She has no place in the House of Lords or holding an OBE.

If you agree, sign our petition: c.org/dyYH6hnydD

Let's force the Government to listen.

#CovidCrooks

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 6d

This morning, Covid Justice member Naomi Fulop went on LBC to explain why the Inquiry has been so critical and why we are campaigning for the Hillsborough Law.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 6d

This Inquiry is far from perfect.

But if Farage actually cared about the quality of public inquiries, he would back the Hillsborough Law, which soon faces its first test in Parliament.

It creates a duty to assist, making inquiries fairer, faster and more efficient.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 6d

There is a reason that establishment figures like Nigel Farage don't like public inquiries.

They shine a light on the establishment and give ordinary people, like us, the chance to hold powerful people to account.

They believe they are above that.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 6d

The cost of the Covid Inquiry so far amounts to 0.01% of annual Gov spending.

The likes of Nigel Farage and Ian Duncan Smith are now saying this is too expensive, and it should be wound up.

That's 0.01% for an inquiry into the worst public health crisis in a generation.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 7d

She's laughing in the face of everyone who has lost a family member to Covid.

Yet she sits in the Lords and still holds an OBE.

If you think the Government should act, sign our petition: c.org/XbVkG7Jrw4

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Disgraced peer Michelle Mone snaps up £10m Florida pad despite £122m PPE scandal

The lavish pad, located on Florida's 'Billionaire Island' was bought just before the High Court ruled Mone and her husband must repay £122 million to the Government

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 10d

Millions of surgical gowns from PPE Medpro were not just unusable; a court heard they could seriously harm or kill patients.

Michelle Mone approached the Cabinet Office for the £122m deal.

Why has the Government not removed her OBE?

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Michelle Mone 'should be stripped of OBE', Covid bereaved families say

A group representing 7,000 Covid bereaved families said it was a 'disgrace' the Scottish lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone still held the gong and called on government to act

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Prof Naomi Fulop @profnaomifulop.bsky.social · 10d

👀 We’ve written to Honours Forfeiture Committee setting out why they should remove #MichelleMone OBE
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Michelle Mone 'should be stripped of OBE', Covid bereaved families say

A group representing 7,000 Covid bereaved families said it was a 'disgrace' the Scottish lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone still held the gong and called on government to act

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 11d

We’ve formally written to the Honours Committee calling for Baroness Mone to be stripped of her OBE.

No one who profited from unusable PPE while people died without protection should hold an honour.

It's in the Government's power to make this happen. They must act now.

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Barbara Herbert @barbaraherbert.bsky.social · 12d

Prostate cancer affects tens of thousands of men each year - including one in four Black men - yet routine screenings for men at risk still aren’t available. Sign the petition now calling for routine screenings for all men at risk of developing prostate cancer:
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Introduce routine prostate cancer screenings for all at risk!

Despite prostate cancer affecting tens of thousands of men each year - including one in four Black men - routine screenings for men at risk still aren’t available. But right now the UK National Scree...

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 13d

For the first time in 2 years, Boris Johnson will give evidence at the Covid Inquiry this morning.

But bereaved families have been blocked from asking him a single question after being excluded from Module 8.

Children who lost parents, parents who lost children: silenced.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 18d

This is the first time the former PM has been called to give evidence since Module 2 in 2023.

In the intervening years, he has avoided answering questions about everything from the care crisis to the VIP-Lane scandal.

Full week 4 timetable here: t.co/BMfclzA1wh

https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/module-8-public-hearings-timetable/

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 18d

Boris Johnson has been called to give evidence at the Covid Inquiry on Tuesday.

Sadly, we have been shut out of this module, excluded as core participants.

The families we represent, including parents who lost children, will have no chance to put questions to the former PM.

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Prof Naomi Fulop @profnaomifulop.bsky.social · 19d

Surprise (not): Michelle Mone doesn’t pay up by deadline.

So, sign & share petition to have her removed from House of Lords 👇🏻👇🏻

We’ve got over 80k signatures & counting.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 19d

Michelle Mone should have no role in making our country’s laws.

Sign our petition to strip Baroness Mone of her peerage:

c.org/2FGMKKkKGM

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 19d

Gavin Williamson repeatedly ignored scientific advice, which warned that school closures might be necessary.

Mr Sam Jacobs, for the TUC, asks why.

Williamson responds by accusing the TUC of having a 'natural interest not to see schools delivering education'.

Shameful.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 19d

It was obvious schools would need to close during the pandemic, and yet the Department of Education refused to prepare for it.

Asked why, Gavin Williamson says he did not have the freedom to consult on what closures would look like.

He was the Secretary of State for Education.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 20d

Important questions raised by Mark Twomey KC on behalf of
Article 39.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 20d

Did Ministers weigh budget fears against the well-being of vulnerable children?

A DfE email disclosed to the Inquiry warned, “protect [local authorities] from legal action… JR will cripple budgets.”

Vicky Ford, then Children’s Minister, says she does not know if she was aware.

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 23d

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Prof Naomi Fulop @profnaomifulop.bsky.social · 23d

Will Mone/Barrowman pay up?

‘The whole case stands as an indictment of the VIP lane.’

Indeed: when will ALL those who established & profited from VIP lane be held to account?

@cbffjuk.bsky.social
@anticorruption.bsky.social

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Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

www.theguardian.com

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 25d

Years of austerity left schools struggling, making the impact of the pandemic even worse for children.

At the Covid Inquiry, education expert Prof Emerita McCluskey warned that preparing for the next pandemic means reversing those cuts.

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